Fatal Victorian Fashion and the Allure of the Poison Garment

Opened this week at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Fashion Victims: The Pleasures and Perils of Dress in the 19th Century explores the dangers of style not just for the wearers, but for the people who made the clothing as well.

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Bitten By Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Nineteenth-Century Home: Hawksley, Lucinda: 9780500518380: : Books

Fashion Archives - Page 5 of 9 - Hyperallergic

DESIGN CULTURES- CULT1200 – LEAH GILES – FASHION BUYING WITH MARKETING

The Long, Strange History of Women Wearing Deadly Clothing

The Long, Strange History of Women Wearing Deadly Clothing

WOOL SILK BOMBAZINE DAY DRESS, 1868

the Last Lady of Mulberry, by Henry Wilton Thomas—A Project Gutenberg eBook

Fatal Victorian Fashion and the Allure of the Poison Garment

Fashion Archives - Page 5 of 9 - Hyperallergic

Kitty Fisher Toxic Allure

Dream House, Death House!. * Dream House, Death House, by Theresa Griffin Kennedy